L'onada

text IGNACIO GARCÍA MAY idea and direction by MARC MONTSERRAT DRUKKER based on the real experiment ofRON JONES

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from March 20 to April 20

Season 2013 - 2014

L'onada

One of the successes of last season returns - the story of the experiment conducted by the charismatic young teacher Ron Jones in California in the 1960s. The Vietnam War, rock music and the anti-racist protests of Dr. Luther King are on everyone's lips. Ron Jones is a high school teacher who is trying to teach his history students how the society that gave rise to Nazism and the concentration and extermination camps could have arisen in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. To do so, he carries out an experiment: for several weeks, the students must follow strict rules that give them first-hand experience from the inside of how easy it is to become part of a totalitarian apparatus. They accept, at first reluctantly and then with increasing enthusiasm, to the point where Jones is in danger of losing control over his little experiment...